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Hard can be good

Life can be all uphill at times, with little rest in between. Over the 3 day weekend I found this to be very true. The air conditioner in the house broke down, which is never a good thing. I decided to show some faith on this issue and wait for a miracle. Interesting the same thing happened 2 years ago. With it been a holiday I just didn’t want to pay an extra service call fee. So I waited, with box fans and sent my husband to see what the problem was. In this process my husband discovered a lizard that had fried himself on the capacitor, which is what happened the last time. Somehow those lizards have got to keep off my a.c unit. I was on one of my facebook groups and mentioned it in somebody else’s post, just to say how crazy and funny it was that it was a lizard and the same weekend. Somebody contacted me and said they could help me with it. I suppose because I expected a miracle this didn’t seem weird or creep me out in the least. This man told me he could fix it for a fraction of the cost I was expecting to spend. One catch, was that it was cash only. Sigh….How am I going to make this happen. I just paid all the bills and we were just getting back on our feet from having a full months worth of pathetic paychecks. My husband asked people if we could borrow the money until Friday. We came up with the money and the guy came and honestly told me all that was wrong with the unit. He fixed the unit and we were back into cool air again. This was going without a.c for 2 1/2 days. I will tell you that the weather did not make this completely unbearable, in the house it was 85 degrees for most of that time, because of the rain. The last day the sun came out and it heated up to 87 degrees. I know it seems a trivial thing to say that this situation was hard when I have had much more difficult circumstances. What was hard was committing to having faith that things would work out and committing to not complaining about been too warm. I guess it is hard to not become negative when things aren’t going the way we want them to go and it can be very easy to claim that Heavenly Father doesn’t care or love us because of our circumstances. That is simply not true, sometimes he wants us to grow and to stretch. I am sure when we were learning how to walk that we would have rather not fallen down a thousand times but we knew we could do it so we grew and stretched and eventually walked. That is what life is all about, the stretching the growing the hard times. That is why we are here after all. Hard is good, but only if we humble and prove ourselves.